Extraordinary child : poems from a South Indian devotional genre /
For hundreds of years Tamil poets have been composing devotional texts in which they adopt the voice of a mother and address praises to an extraordinary child. The poems, called pillaittamil (literally "Tamil for a child"), form a major genre of Tamil literature. Since the twelfth century,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Tamil |
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Honolulu, HI :
University of Hawai'i Press,
©1997.
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Colección: | SHAPS library of translations.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. How to Read a Pillaittamil. 1. Extraordinary Child. 2. Asking for the Moon, Taming the Tiger
- pt. 2. Pillaittamils for Reading. 3. The Florescence. 4. A Temple and a Pillaittamil. 5. The Hindu Monastic Milieu. 6. A Pillaittamil to Muhammad. 7. One Poet's Baby Jesus. 8. Poetry of Cultural Nationalism
- pt. 3. Reflections on Pillaittamils. 9. The Fruits of Reading Pillaittamils. Appendix. Descriptions of Pillaittamils in Texts about Poetics.